A Teacher's Guide to Standardized Reading Tests: Knowledge Is Power

by Kate Montgomery, Lucy McCormick Calkins, Beverly Falk, et al.

Book Overview

In recent years, the increasingly high stakes attached to norm-referenced reading tests have made it harder to hold onto what we believe about language arts education. Now, Lucy Calkins, Kate Montgomery, and Donna Santman meet us in the true trenches, offering companionship and guidance in the most lonely, complex, and sometimes heartbreaking area of our teaching: preparing students for standardized reading tests.

Written with the intimacy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 032500000X
• ISBN13: 9780325000008
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Ambivalent

Lucy Calkins is generally a good writer with her heart and skills in the right place. This book is solid and helpful. I'm glad the professor in question assigned it, because it has helped...I'm sorry though that there is so much emphasis on evaluative testing that the need for this book will keep it and related volumes in print for the next 2,000,000 years. I just finished my second advanced degree (in Education) and I've found this little tome to be useful. My suggestion: repeal NCLB and let the teachers (who are, after all, the experts about teaching) be in charge of curriculum again and to heck with mandated assessments. Still, as long as there are those kinds of tests, this is the book to have.

A Teacher's Guide to Standardized Reading Tests : Knowledge

Standardized testing got you down? Here is a fresh way to approach the task of test prep. Using 'Strategy' work (as taught in Strategies That Work, and Mosaic of Thought) and investigative work into what students are thinking, Ms. Calkin treats 'test taking' as a genre. I used her approach this year, and found it flowed seamlessly into our Reader's Workshop 'Strategy' investigations.

Certainly makes you think!

As a reading teacher,this book has done wonders to help me see where we are weak in preparing our students for taking standardized tests. It is written as a case study and is easy reading. Super ideas for helping your students understand what is expected of them and how to prepare them.